So for the last couple of weeks we have been based near the popular town of Byron Bay. We are actually up in the hills in the 'hinterland' but the climate is fantastic and there is an amazing amount of life that comes out at night. We are house sitting in the village of Federal and are also looking after a collection of chickens.

One of the biggest problems with looking after chickens here is that there are large Carpet Pythons ... only last night I heard next doors chickens sound an alarm but by the time I got there a 2 metre python had already killed one chicken and was trying to kill a second. It was really sad but if we hadn't have got there when we did, then the whole coop could have been lost!

Carpet Python on top of our chicken coop

The python tested the defences systematically

In strike position

It isn't just snakes that inhabit the night, there is also an amazing diversity of invertebrates ...

Then there are the amphibians ...

Cane Toad

Bleating Tree Frog

Green Tree Frog

Bleating Tree Frog

That'll do for now but I will post some more within the next week. I will also update the details for the invertebrates so they are all correctly labelled.